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That light feeling under your feet

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    NeWest Press, 2020

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  • Author: Geitzler, Kayla
    Date:
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    2020
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    Finalist for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize at the New Brunswick Book Awards!Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers. These masterfully crafted poems challenge perpetuating colonial and class relations, as well as the hedonistic lifestyle attributed to the employees of these floating resorts. Kayla Geitzler's debut collection interprets isolation, alienation, racism, and assimilation into the margins as inevitable consequences for the seafaring workforce of the most profitable sector of the tourism industry.Exploring the liminal space between labour and leisure, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet are at once buoyant and weighty, with language that cuts like a keel through the sea.

    Subject(s): Cruise ships
    Original Publisher: [Edmonton, Alberta], NeWest Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781774390092
    Collection(s)/Series: Read Alberta Ebooks